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Iberian Peninsula

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Iberian Peninsula

Name given by ancient Greek navigators to the Spanish peninsula, derived from the River Iberus (Ebro). Anthropologists have given the name ‘Iberian’ to a Neolithic people, traces of whom are found in the Spanish peninsula, southern France, the Canary Isles, Corsica, and part of North Africa.



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As a prominent scholar put it, "The will of these pioneers [meaning the founders of the Franco-Sephardi enclaves] to create communities testifies indeed to the fidelity of the conversos of the Iberian Peninsula to their ancestral faith.
It would appear from maps that guide visitors around the exhibition Site: New Architecture in Spain that the whole country has not seen so much building 'since the Romans unified the Iberian Peninsula with roadways and aqueducts during the reign of Augustus,' suggests its curator Terence Riley in the catalogue to his farewell exhibition at MoMA.
SCA, Stockholm, Sweden, said that, to further strengthen its position in the Iberian peninsula, it will invest approximately SEK 490 million (US$ 62 million) in a new tissue machine and expanded converting capacity in Valls, Spain.
 
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